Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Scottish - Writer | November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

SoulWorldSayingYouAliveKnow

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

HappinessHappyBe HappyForget

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

MotivationalLifeExerciseDevoted

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

MarriageManSelfishMoralBeing

The world has no room for cowards.

Robert Louis Stevenson

WorldCowardsRoom

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

EyesGardeningCareTake CareGarden

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

TravelerOnlyWhoForeignLands

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

PoliticsPreparationThoughtOnly

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LiveLeadingOne ThingEndlessScale

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson

BraveDoctorPushWeekYearYou

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

WisdomPeopleMediocrityAmbitious

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeGoodEnoughWayPoorOwn

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